Black Fact = 1893(July 9) – Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the world’s first successful open-heart surgery without anesthesia at Provident Hospital in Chicago, IL, on this date in 1893. He pursued a pioneering career in medicine. An African American doctor, in 1891, Williams opened Provident Hospital, the first medical facility to have an interracial staff. He was also one of the first physicians to successfully complete pericardial surgery on a patient. Williams later became chief surgeon of the Freedmen’s Hospital.
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